2025 Regular SessionKentucky Legislature

HB5: AN ACT relating to correctional facilities.

Legislative Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197, relating to penitentiaries, to direct that all prisoners are subject to search at any time, require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females, and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from providing cosmetic procedures or initiating cross-sex hormones for a prisoner; create new sections of KRS Chapter 441, relating to jails, to direct that all jail inmates are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females.

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Bill History

2/12/2025
introduced in House
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
to Committee on Committees (H)
House of Representatives
2/14/2025
to Judiciary (H)
House of Representatives

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/12/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Judiciary(House of Representatives)

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/1/197087.5 KB
Local Mandate
Local Mandate1/1/19703.1 KB
Corrections Impact
Corrections Impact1/1/19703.2 KB